THE INFAMOUS DEATH OF RASPUTIN:

Rasputin was led to the cellar and fed poisoned cakes and wine, but these did affect him. He was shot at point blank range. Rasputin collapsed on the floor. On returning to inspect the body, Rasputin suddenly regained consciousness and started to throttle his assaillants, who needless to say were completely scared out of his wits. . They found him in the yard crawling towards the gate and proceeded to shoot and bludgeon him. They then bound him and tossed him into the river. When Rasputin's body was found, his bonds were broken and his lungs were filled with water, showing that he didn't actually die until he was submerged in the frozen waters. . "Do not grieve. The Little One will not die.", once he wrote about the son of the Tsar of Russia

THE LAST LETTER OF RASPUTIN-

THE PREMONITION OF HIS OWN IMPENDING DEATH AND THE FATE OF THE ROYAL FAMILY

I write and leave behind me this letter at St. Petersburg.

I feel that I shall leave life before January 1st. I wish to make known to the Russian people, to Papa, to the Russian Mother and to the children, to the land of Russia, what they must understand.

If I am killed by common assassins, and especially by my brothers the Russian peasants, you, Tsar of Russia, have nothing to fear, remain on your throne and govern, and you, Russian Tsar, will have nothing to fear for your children, they will reign for hundreds of years in Russia.

But if I am murdered by boyars, nobles, and if they shed my blood, their hands will remain soiled with my blood, for twenty-five years they will not wash their hands from my blood.

They will leave Russia. Brothers will kill brothers, and they will kill each other and hate each other, and for twenty-five years there will be no noblers in the country.

Tsar of the land of Russia, if you hear the sound of the bell which will tell you that Grigory has been killed, you must know this: if it was your relations who have wrought my death then no one of your family, that is to say, none of your children or relations will remain alive for more than two years.

They will be killed by the Russian people...I shall be killed. I am no longer among the living. Pray, pray, be strong, think of your blessed family.

Words written by Grigory Rasputin in a letter to the Tsarina Alexandra, 7 Dec 1916 23 days later, Rasputin was killed, by two relatives of the Tsar Nicholas II 19 months after Rasputin's death, the Tsar and his family lay dead